Quotables.

"We made sure we didn't promise to deliver it...

December 16, 1993

"We made sure we didn't promise to deliver it."

-David Redden, president of Sotheby's, after auctioning off a Russian research vehicle left on the moon for $68,500.

"Let's talk about Vincent Van Gogh on Prozac. He'd still have both his ears, and he probably would have been painting trees and Bambi. Beethoven would have been writing commercial jingles. He would've gone deaf, and he wouldn't have cared. He would've found peace at last."

-An anonymous Washington writer who along with several of his friends is taking the popular anti-depressant but fears it will diminish his creativity.

"I know it's a little twisted. But this little conversation piece will have cult value. I could display it next to the Gerald Ford letter pardoning Richard Nixon, which I own, in my new Hall of Guilt."

-Andy Gross, after paying $770 at New York City auction of sports memorabilia for Pete Rose's good-behavior voucher from doing prison time for tax evasion.